Ertuğrul Taciroğlu

UCLA, Civil & Environmental Engineering Dept., F.ASCE, Chair

Ertuğrul Taciroğu is a department chair at UCLA’s Civil & Environmental Engineering Department and the Chief Editor of The Multidisciplinary Journal of Civil Engineering. He serves on editorial boards of several journals, including Earthquake Spectra, Soil Dynamics & Earthquake Engineering, and Structural Control & Health Monitoring. He is a graduate of Istanbul Technical University, and he holds Masters and PhD degrees from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He completed his postdoctoral research at the Center for Simulation of Advanced Rockets. His research spans the disciplines of theoretical and applied mechanics and structural and geotechnical earthquake engineering. He conducts projects on regional performance-based risk assessment of civil infrastructure under natural hazards, and structural health and performance monitoring. He is the recipient of a National Science Foundation CAREER award and the Walter Huber Prize of the American Society of Civil Engineers.